Structures of the Bohai Petroliferous Area, Bohai Bay Basin

This paper, for the first time, deals with a more systematic study of the structures in the Bohaipetroliferous area that covers nearly one third of the Bohai Bay basin. The study mainly involves the effects of preexisting basement faults on the basin formation, the characteristics of basin geometry and kinetics, the modelling of the tectonic-thermal history, the polycyclicity and heterogeneity in the structural evolution and the natural seismic tomographic images of the crust and upper mantle. The authors analyze the features of the dynamic evolution of the basin in the paper and point out that the basin in the Bohai petroliferous area is an extensional pull-apart basin.     

Glacier outburst floods reconstructed from lake sediments and their implications for Holocene variations of the plateau glacier Folgefonna in western Norway

A sudden release of large volumes of water during a glacier outburst flood (GLOF) is a major hazard worldwide. Here, we identify the sedimentary signature of glacial and non‐glacial processes, including GLOFs, based on lacustrine sediments from the distal glacier‐fed Lake Buarvatnet in western Norway. Historically documented GLOFs in 2002 CE and during the 1980s CE are identified in the ²¹⁰Pb‐ and ¹⁴C‐dated sediments. These events have the same sedimentary signature as 12 earlier events throughout the Holocene interpreted to represent previous GLOFs in the catchment. The GLOFs are interpreted to have occurred during periods when the glacier extent was similar to the modern positions, and the events are thus used to pinpoint past positions of the glacier terminus and, hence, the equilibrium line altitudes (ELAs). The results indicate that the glacier Svartenutbreen, located at the eastern part of Folgefonna, had a similar size in 2002 CE as c. 8200–8300 cal. a BP, corresponding to the 8.2 ka event in the North Atlantic region. The regrowth of Sørfonna after the Holocene Thermal Optimum occurred at c. 6900 cal. a BP and Svartenutbreen was at modern size and extent in the periods c. 6400, c. 5450, c. 4850, c. 3850, c. 3550 and c. 1650 cal. a BP. Since 1650 cal. a BP, we infer that the glacier was larger than the 2002 CE glacier extent until 1910 CE when a GLOF occurred. Svartenutbreen has been retreating since 1910 CE, which led to the ice damming of the two historical GLOFs in the 1980s and 2002 CE separated by a glacier advance in the 1990s CE. The findings are discussed and compared to other regional glacier reconstructions in Norway, and emphasize the value of identifying and utilizing GLOFs as an indicator of past ELA variability.     

Structure Refinement of Cs-rich Na-Li Beryl and Analysis of Its Typomorphic Characteristics of Configurations

1 Introduction Natural beryl is an accessory mineral mainly in pegmatite, partly in some highly diffractionated granite or metamorphic rocks, with the crystal shapes beingprismatic, or occasionally tabular. For tabular beryl found in pegmatite it is believed that the tabular configuration is connected with alkali metals (Bieus, 1960; Wang et al., 1981) and geneses of the tabular configuration have been reported before. In recent years, tabular beryl has been found in the Xuebaoding W-Sn-Be d…     

The Classification and Model of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs

Coalbed methane has been explored in many basins worldwide for 30 years, and has been developed commercially in some of the basins. Many researchers have described the characteristics of coalbed methane geology and technology systematically. According to these investigations, a coalbed methane reservoir can be defined: "a coal seam that contains some coalbed methane and is isolated from other fluid units is called a coalbed methane reservoir". On the basis of anatomization, analysis, and comparison of the typical coalbed methane reservoirs, coalbed methane reservoirs can be divided into two classes: the hydrodynamic sealing coalbed methane reservoirs and the self-sealing coalbed methane reservoirs. The former can be further divided into two sub-classes: the hydrodynamic capping coalbed methane reservoirs, which can be divided into five types and the hydrodynamic driving coalbed methane reservoirs, which can be divided into three types. The latter can be divided into three types. Currently, hydrodynamic s     

Dawn; the Vesta–HED connection; and the geologic context for eucrites,diogenites, and howardites

The Dawn mission has provided new evidence strengthening the identification of asteroid Vesta as the parent body of the howardite, eucrite, and diogenite (HED) meteorites. The evidence includes Vesta's petrologic complexity, detailed spectroscopic characteristics, unique space weathering, diagnostic geochemical abundances and neutron absorption characteristics, chronology of surface units and impact history, occurrence of exogenous carbonaceous chondritic materials in the regolith, and dimensions of the core, all of which are consistent with HED observations and constraints. Global mapping of the distributions of HED lithologies by Dawn cameras and spectrometers provides the missing geologic context for these meteorites, thereby allowing tests of petrogenetic models and increasing their scientific value.     

黔西南及邻区中-晚三叠世层序地层格架

在研究了黔西南及邻区中—晚三叠世地层的层序界面特征、地层结构和堆叠型式之后 ,将其划分为 5个沉积层序 ,并描述了层序内各体系域的特点 ,在此基础上 ,通过综合研究已取得的生物地层资料 ,将其与Haq等列出的三叠纪生物地层时带进行对比 ,初步标定了各沉积层序及体系域的界面年龄 (层序 1底界年龄 2 39.4Ma;层序 2底界年龄 2 38Ma;层序 3底界年龄 2 33Ma;层序 4底界年龄 2 2 7Ma,顶界年龄 2 2 3Ma) ,从而建立了本区分辨率较高的中—晚三叠世地层格架。格架中层序地层的组合样式 ,在 2级海平面缓慢下降的背景下 ,受盆地构造沉降的影响较大。当层序处于构造沉降的加速期时 ,呈退积型组合方式 (如层序 1和层序 3) ;而当层序处于构造沉降的平缓期时 ,则呈进积型组合方式 (如层序 2和层序 4 )。     

龙卷风的漏斗结构理论

龙卷风是大气中风速和垂直速度极大的小尺度系统.本文用气压梯度力、惯性离心力、黏性力三力平衡的柱坐标(r,θ,z)下的大气动力和热力学方程组,求龙卷风的三维速度场(vr,vθ,vz),从理论上绘制出龙卷风的三维漏斗型结构.充分说明龙卷风由涡旋流和急流这两种流叠加而成,涡旋流是由惯性离心力造成的,急流是由水平辐合辐散而引起的强对流.龙卷风是在极端不稳定的大气层结中形成的.     

NOTE ON THE GEOLOGY OF CHANGSINTIEN-TUOLI AREA,S.W.OF PEIPING

Changsintien is a station on the Peiping-Hankow railway and is situatedabout 20 km S.W.of Peiping.Further S.W.for about 15 km is the townof Tuoli where begins the Tuotsin aerial ropeway for transporting coal and at